September 27, 2011

University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 9-28-2011 September 27, 2011 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 27, 2011" (2011). Daily Mississippian. 392. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/392 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. DTheailyMississippian Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 thedmonline.com Vol. 100 No. 191 Cost of living for students on the rise BY LEE HARRIS [email protected] University of Mississippi student Phillip Ma drives 70 miles to and from Southaven every week- end. He doesn’t visit family, shop or go for any other personal rea- sons. Ma drives to Southaven each week to work at Best Buy, so he can pay for his college education. Many college students can re- late to Ma’s situation. They are having to cut back on spending, take out student loans or even pick up low-paying jobs just to pay for the rising cost of living and attending school in Oxford. The prices of the basic expenses all Ole Miss students face — tuition, housing, gasoline, food — are all rising, and the economy still shows little sign of recovering. The cost of attending Ole Miss for the 2011-12 school year is $5,790 for an in-state student and $14,796 for an out-of-state student taking 15 hours per semester. The increase in freshman enrollment, in addition to driving tuition high- GRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian The cost of living in the U.S. has gone up over the past few years, and the average student is struggling to pay bills. Phillip Ma, computer science senior, only makes approximately $10 See COSTS, PAGE 5 per month when adding up his approximate expenses, bottom row, left to right, with his approximate earnings and savings, top right, going down. Are you ready? How Ole Miss gets celebrities to Hotty Toddy BY KAITLYN DUBOSE ther reach than some might think, [email protected] as Ole Miss alumni graduate, Special to The DM move off and meet people. Sometimes these alumni are When Dickie Scruggs walked people who can help Stern get in up to assistant athletic director contact with celebrities. Penn was for Ole Miss Sports Productions J. friends with an Ole Miss gradu- Stern and asked him if he wanted ate, and Dennis Quaid married actor Russell Crowe to start the an Ole Miss alumni, as did Chef Hotty Toddy chant at the football Emeril Lagasse and Charlie Day game, Stern’s response was simple from “It’s Always Sunny in Phila- — “Hell yeah.” delphia.” “Then he handed me his “Every one of them is special phone, and I was talking to Rus- in their own right,” Stern said. “I sell Crowe,” Stern said. really don’t have a favorite. But Stern has been working hard for getting Snoop Dogg to do it was 14 years to get different celebrities a good one. My buddy is his engi- KAITLYN DUBOSE | The Daily Mississippian to ask the question all Rebel fans Movie personality Kal Penn starts the Hotty Toddy chant before the Southern Illinois game. neer, so that one was cool.” love to hear: “Are you ready?” Equally important to getting the “One night Elvis Costello called the season. Since then, Ole Miss’ ESPN and USA Network, has It’s easy to see why celebrities crowd ready, Stern said, is getting my phone and asked to do the famous chant has been started made a lot of friends in the right like Morgan Freeman and B.B. Ole Miss national exposure. chant,” he said. “I thought it was by celebrities, including Vince places and has 14 years worth King, being from Mississippi, “It’s not about getting you fired one of my buddies joking with me, Vaughn, The Today Show cast of experience at tracking people would want to participate. But up,” Stern said. “You get any- but it really was Elvis Costello. It’s and Jack Black. down. If he doesn’t know some- with others, like Kal Penn, the body to say ‘Are you ready’ and unbelievable what it’s turned into. The list of who has started the one who works with a particular connections to Ole Miss are less everyone will cheer. It’s showing It’s still crazy to me.” chant includes more than 40 tele- celebrity, he will find someone obvious. the far reaches of it. We should In 1997, Stern convinced coach vision and movie stars, including who does. “It’s real easy to get Ole Miss be honored that people want to John Vaught to video the “Are you Jay Leno, Kermit the Frog and “There is a story behind every- or Mississippi people,” Stern said. do it. These are famous, famous ready” for the first ballgame of more than 20 Ole Miss coaches one,” he said. “We just start call- “That’s cake. We want people people.” and notable alumni, like Shepard ing and emailing and finding peo- who have no connections to Ole Josh Broome, a transfer student Smith and coach David Cutcliffe. ple who know people who might Miss. Then we give them one.” inside Stern, who has worked for know other people.” Stern said Ole Miss has a far- See HOTTY TODDY, PAGE 5 RAINN largest Houston Nutt Visit Facebook.com/ sexual assault Monday press thedailymississippian prevention conference to weigh-in on network in U.S. notebook Amendment 26 P. 4 P. 8 online poll OPINION OPINION | 9.27.11 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 An insider’s view Ole Miss Pan-Hellenic Recruitment not some typical sorority girl whom you have seen on tele- vision or in the movies. I am a young woman who values the Greek system after seeing the opportunities it can BY MEGHAN LITTEN create for its members. I have [email protected] seen women cry from both heartache and happiness. I am lucky because I am I know that everyone one of the few women on this doesn’t like the Greek system. campus who have had the op- I don’t live in a fantasy world; portunity to experience every I get it. I understand that not side of the Pan-Hellenic re- everyone has the same opin- cruitment process as an un- ion as me. dergraduate. Some just don’t care, and As a freshman, I was the I am OK with apathy; how- naïve Potential New Member ever, I am not OK with indi- (PNM) who was afraid of be- viduals who belittle women ing released. I was the sopho- for being in sororities because more in-house active creep- of some preconceived notion ing on the top of the door they may have from seeing stack, screaming at the top of a drunk girl on the Square my lungs. or because after reading the I was on the Pan-Hellenic book “Pledged” they consid- Executive Council my junior er themselves some kind of year, learning more than I expert on sororities. ever imagined I could about This week, over 1,200 KRISTEN VISE | [email protected] how recruitment works and PNMs are going through the answering the hundreds of formal recruitment process, phone calls from concerned and I want people to under- mamas. stand that this is not anoth- In an off-year, your vote counts more than ever Now I am the senior Gam- er week at Ole Miss for the ma Chi, who prays each one thousands of young women of her PNMs will open their involved in every possible side or tweet, networking tools have been fascinating. bid cards to reveal the house of recruitment. proven revolutionary when it Regardless of how many Ini- they want and who leads I am not asking for every- comes to organization, espe- tiative 26 opponents organize, them in a sprint toward their one to care, but for everyone cially in politics. post, tweet, email or text, only new sorority. to respect what this week rep- A perfect example of this one thing matters in the end These experiences have al- resents for some of your fel- phenomenon is the opposition — how many people cast their lowed me to fully understand low Ole Miss students. This is BY LEXI THOMAN movement that has sprung up ballot on election day. the Greek system and the dif- the first time that women will [email protected] in a matter of weeks against The Initiative 26 opposition ference it can make in young be asked to think for them- Mississippi Initiative 26. movement has been building a women’s lives. The Greek selves and make their own The tools and tricks of mod- Facebook groups and web- strong foothold in the college- system has allowed me to decisions without advice and ern technology like the Internet, sites have allowed people with age demographic. While this develop my leadership skills, guidance from their parents Facebook, email, texting and a common cause to organize sounds like good news for their introduced me to some of my or friends. Twitter have created platforms across the state in ways — and cause, the reality is that college best friends and, of course, This is also when upper- upon which we can reach entire speeds — that would have been students rarely show up to vote helped expand my T-shirt classman sorority women get social networks in seconds, with nearly impossible only a few on election day.

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